Sentences with phrase «irreconcilable contradictions»

Mr. Lei even goes as far as stating that «cultural and strategic intentions determine that there is a natural and irreconcilable contradiction between the core developer and the Chinese government.»

Certainly a private myth must be an ultimate and irreconcilable contradiction if we assume that the mythmaker must be the priestly or ritual spokesman of a pre-literate society.

When at last it became fashionable to admit that there are irreconcilable contradictions in the four versions of the empty tomb story, this fact was used by many as a popular argument in favor of their essential reliability.

Hence, if that, than which nothing greater can be conceived, can be conceived not to exist, it is not that, than which nothing greater can be conceived, but this is an irreconcilable contradiction.

He then insists that any attempts to revive myth as a viable organ of belief are doomed to failure: «For we must remember that belief in myth is not a personal attainment alone; it is more, much more so, a social phenomenon and depends for its efficacy on group acceptance and adherence; a private myth, however admirably expressed in whatever form, is therefore an ultimate, irreconcilable contradiction.»

Reflecting on the teaching of Jesus and the life of the early Church it is clear that there is an irreconcilable contradiction between the spirituality of Jesus (and the early church) and the neo-liberal globalization.

It means, fundamentally, to be trapped in a strange hinterland of blurred expectations and irreconcilable contradictions.

That's to say the movie's thematic concerns exist as an irreconcilable contradiction: People have made themselves sick in the pursuit of what they consider achievement, but if you go looking for the cure to that illness, it's going to be worse than the disease.

Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) lived a life of irreconcilable contradictions.